Pacific Post-Partum Support Society

This slim volume or long pamphlet is not intended to be comprehensive but more to provide comfort at the preliminary or perfunctory level possible (what's the positive version of perfunctory?), help point mums suffering from PPAD in a healing direction, and gather some further resources. It does that well, and if you don't know much about anxiety and depression already, the discussion will be useful. As someone trying to give support in a PPAD situation, the best thing for me was to get it repeated again and again and again that your (my) role is not to fix the situation or offer advice but just to listen and be kind. We all know this since reading about what men and women want in our grandma's Reader's Digest when we were eight, of course, but it's one of everyday life's harder disciplines to actualize. I think especially because when you're not suffering from PPAD-type paralysis, the natural thing when things aren't good and you're trying to make them better is to do something (or maybe I should just speak for me, that's my inclined response)--and when you're intimately involved with someone in this situation, refraining from trying to help/push/jolly/whatever them along means not only that you're respecting that this is something that they have to do themselves, but also that your life will not be normal or all right until they do: giving exclusive power to take actions to make your own circumstances tolerable to the one person who's really not capable of taking action of any sort, let alone that specific sort, right now. Sorry to use this review to blow off steam. I guess the best answer I've come up with for people who are more-or-less emotionally intact in situations like this is to be kind and "just cope," and I'm not sure how useful that is. But I don't mean to hijack here.… (más)